Umfang:
1 online resource (329 pages)
ISBN:
9780813042947
Serie:
Southern Dissent Ser
Inhalt:
In the United States, cheap products made by cheap labor are in especially high demand, purchased by men and women who have watched their own wages decline and jobs disappear. Looking South examines the effects of race, class, and gender in the development of the low-wage, anti-union, and state-supported industries that marked the creation of the New South and now the Global South. Workers in the contemporary Global South--those nations of Central and Latin America, most of Asia, and Africa--live and work within a model of industrial development that materialized in the red brick mills of the New South. As early as the 1950s, this labor model became the prototype used by U.S. companies as they expanded globally. This development has had increasingly powerful effects on workers and consumers at home and around the world. Mary E. Frederickson highlights the major economic and cultural changes brought about by deindustrialization and immigration. She also outlines the events, movements, and personalities involved in the race-, class-, and gender-based resistance to industry's relentless search for cheap labor.
Inhalt:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Labor Transformation and Networks of Resistance -- Part I. Claiming Freedom -- 1. Labor, Race, and Homer Plessy's Freedom Claim -- 2. Transformation and Resistance: A War of Images in the Post-Plessy South -- Part II. Women and Dissent -- 3. "I Got So Mad, I Just Had to Get Something off My Chest": The Contested Terrain of Women's Organizations in the American South -- 4. Beyond Heroines and Girl Strikers: Gender and Organized Labor in the South -- Part III. Labor Rights to Civil Rights -- 5. Labor Looks South: Theory and Practice in Southern Textile Organizing -- 6. "Living in Two Worlds": Civil Rights and Southern Textiles -- Part IV. From the New South to the Global South -- 7. Transformation and Resistance in the Nueva New South -- 8. Back to the Future: Mapping Workers across the Global South -- Coda: Southern Workers on the World Stage -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780813036038
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780813036038
Sprache:
Englisch
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